Company Cafeterias Decide
To Create Dinners to Go

One of life's little crises for the working stiff: dinner guests coming unexpectedly and nothing at home to eat.

One of life's newer coping mechanisms: take-home dinner from the company cafeteria.

Christine Politis, an employee-relations specialist at Compaq Computer Corp. headquarters in Houston, faced just such a crisis when she learned at the office that guests expected the next day were coming that night instead. So she...